EU Marie-Curie Initial Training Network 'CREAM'

Description

The network consisted of 13 partner institutions and 10
associated partners from industry, regulatory authorities,
and contract research organizations. CREAM included 20 PhD
and three postdoc projects. All projects were related to
developing ecological models for the risk assessment of
chemicals, primarily pesticides. Since empirical approaches
are too limited to solve the problems, mechanistic effect
models are needed to make chemical risk assessment more
ecologically relevant. To make this possible, CREAM is
designed to (1) develop guidance for Good Modelling Practice
which makes modelling more transparent, consistent,
comprehensive, and reliable; (2) test and demonstrate the
added value of models in a number of case studies; (3) train
more researchers in both modelling and regulatory risk
assessment so they can be involved in future model-based
risk assessments in academia, industry, and regulatory
authorities.

My role

(co-)supervision of four PhD students at VU (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands), UFZ (Leipzig, Germany), JU (Krakow, Poland)
and INRA (Rennes, France). Application of the standard DEB
model to toxic effects, development of simplified DEB
models, and harmonisation of survival models into GUTS.